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Patron Saint of Confidence Women: Cassie Chadwick

Ridiculous Crime

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The Marriage of a Clairvoyant

In 1883, Lydia Springsteen gets married to Dr. Wallace Springsteen and they move to his house on Garden Street in Cleveland. She takes the identity of Madame Lydia de Vere and she starts a business as a clairvoyant. For a while, she goes to Erie, Pennsylvania and she convinces all the locals there in Pennsylvania that she is the frail and sickly niece of William Tecumseh Sherman,. The townspeople write to them saying, hey, you said you were going to repay us, you know, to get your bloody gums out of here. And she writes back, I am so sorry to tell you, but Marie died. This time around

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